Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Iceland and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing June Days to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joe Finger,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Neil Young,
Steve Hackett,
David Bowie,
Josef K,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pole,
Second Layer,
Khruangbin,
The Misunderstood,
The Red Krayola,
Mark Hollis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Can,
Dennis Brown,
Cabaret Voltaire,
ABC,
Hasil Adkins,
U.S. Maple,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Pus,
Godley & Creme,
Johnny Clarke,
Soul II Soul,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
D'Angelo,
The Victims,
Hardrive,
Flipper,
Unwound,
China Crisis,
Kerri Chandler,
Harmonia,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nick Fraelich,
Joensuu 1685,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tommy Roe,
The Buckinghams,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Von Mondo,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Excepter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
This Heat,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Monks,
Spoonie Gee,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rosa Yemen,
John Lydon,
Curtis Mayfield,
a-ha,
Quadrant,
Kaleidoscope,
Yusef Lateef,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.